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Rest is restorative. It helps you reconnect with yourself, your body, your clarity, your energy, and eventually your capacity to re-engage with life again. Avoidance is protective. It’s usually an attempt to escape discomfort, fear, overwhel
Rumination can feel productive because your mind is constantly trying to “work things out.” So you replay conversations. Go back over situations. Analyse behaviour. Mentally rewrite what happened. Search for the exact moment things chang
A lot of overthinking comes from the mind trying to create certainty before we feel safe enough to move forward. So we replay conversations. Go over situations again and again. Try to work out what we missed or what we should have done differently M
After something painful, disappointing, or unexpected, the mind often goes into investigation mode. It searches for certainty. Control. A way to make sure it never happens again. But there’s a difference between reflection and rumination

Karen Barnes is a behaviour change and emotional wellness coach helping people understand the patterns that keep them stuck, make sense of why they developed, and create lasting change from a place of greater self-understanding and self-trust.

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